Insights

Research on how AI recommends.

Notes from ongoing measurement of AI recommendation behaviour in real estate markets. Written for operators, not for search engines.

01Foundations

How AI systems decide who to recommend

Recommendation answers are synthesized, not ranked. Understanding the difference between retrieval, source trust and entity confidence explains most of what teams find surprising in their first audit.

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02Diagnosis

Why real-world authority doesn’t automatically transfer

Production volume is largely invisible to a language model. What is visible is what has been written, structured and corroborated about you in places the model can reach.

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03Sources

What AI models appear to trust in local markets

Across illustrative measurement, recommendation answers lean disproportionately on a small set of third-party sources per market. Coverage on those sources is unevenly distributed between competitors.

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04Method

Measuring something that changes every week

Single-run testing is noise. Locked prompt sets, repeated runs and captured timestamps are what turn AI answers into something you can actually measure a change against.

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05Positioning

Recommendation moments vs. keywords

“Luxury realtor NYC” and “who should I hire to sell my $5M Tribeca apartment” are different problems. Only one of them ends with a name.

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06Transparency

What we won’t claim about AI visibility

No one outside the labs knows the ranking systems. Anyone selling certainty about them is selling something else. Here is where our confidence ends.

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Reading about it is useful. Measuring your own market is better.